Libraries are probably the last free Third Space that you can use year-round, too. Librarians are there to help you, and they fight for your right to read, and your privacy. We connect people with services and ideas and experiences. Libraries are powerful and awesome.

Egg freezing, fertility tech and why ovulation is like the Hunger Games. Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about the future of fertility. Listen now on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSFertilit...

The Government’s Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper marks an important moment for higher education and social mobility in England. @jondatta.bsky.social outlines what the announcement means for widening access to university in our latest blog ⤵️ www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

**UNHEARD BOOK EVENT - LONDON** 21st October at the beautiful Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garrett in London. I used to pass this venue all the time when I was a medical student at Guys Hospital so this is really exciting! Join us! Tickets 👇🏽 oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry 📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Private menopause tests risk undermining NHS care, doctors say

Marie Antoinette at the V&A: opens 20 September 2025.

Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”

GUYS. I OPENED THE BOX. Obvs have not opened the book though, that would be mad.

What is the future of fertility? Meet the panellists for one of the upcoming live episode recordings of our podcast, A Question of Science: @profjoyceharper.bsky.social, @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social, @nmoris.bsky.social and @gunes-taylor.bsky.social. 🎟️ Book now ⬇️ 🔗 lostintv.com/tv-show?id=1...

New from @edinburghup.bsky.social The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel, edited by Loïc Bourdeau and @cilloyd.bsky.social, “provides a compassionate, capacious and complex analysis of the over-discussed but under-analysed concept of the millennial and its relationship to long-form fiction”

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Book cover designs by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (c.1930) #WomensArt

Writing my poems I forgot the dustbins.

Just read the proof of this remarkable book - chapeau, Madeline

We are looking for a postdoc to work for the @soc-misc.bsky.social project. The post is based at the University of At Andrews in Scotland and focuses on analysing administrative and census data on #miscarriage. Let me or Katy Keenan know if you have any questions. More info below 👇

“‘Disgrace’ became popular, well-known, and worlded by playing on certain stereotypes of South Africa pre- and post-1994 (and the achievement of democracy) that were overfamiliar, irksome, and even offensive to many of his South African readers.” New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/j-m-coetzees...

And finally, a bonus 'new in paperback' for one of our handbooks, 'The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film': www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship 3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits www.lse.ac.uk/library/what... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social‬

These ten titles inspired Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans, Kylie Cheung’s “attempt to contextualize the deeper impacts of abortion laws, particularly on endemic gender-based violence in our society.”

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

The photo is part of our new London exhibition, The Art of Nursing, which presents art by and about nurses - revealing how they have been mythologised, usually as female, predominantly as white. It explores the role of art in constructing and resisting stereotypes: buff.ly/vZGtbfa. #ArtOfNursing

Two postdoc positions are available on the Wellcome-funded project "Between Deception and Dissent: regulating unproven, disproven and misleading health-related claims". www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...

in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been 30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Roses Tremieres (Hollyhocks), 1884 By Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter #WomensArt

For the first time, scientists have managed to create healthy, fertile mice, from two biological fathers, that have gone on to have their own offspring.

Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

June Tarpé Mills, (1918-1988) one of the first major US female comics artists, known for her action comic strip, Miss Fury, featuring the first female action hero created by a woman #womensart

☀️ SUMMER SALE ☀️ We’re running a summer sale on our website until 10.00 a.m. BST on 23 June, with a 30 per cent discount across everything on our website using the code ‘SUMMER30’ at checkout. Shop now: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/

We're delighted to be hosting the first ever Biblioteka Art Book Fair at the Warburg, taking place from Friday 20 to Saturday 21 June. Bringing together nearly 50 international publishers, booksellers and artists, the fair also features a programme of talks across both days. #ArtistsBook #ArtBook

If you have time today or tomorrow, go see the quilt at the Tate 💔

Interesting online event in July: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ctrl-hate-...

If unceasing fact-checking would fix 𝘺𝘰𝘶 – and you're also able to work in our London offices five days a week – then applications for our internship close on Monday 16 June.

⭐️ Research Opportunity ⭐️ I’m looking for surrogates who’ve had at least 1 surrogate baby, or parents with at least 1 child through surrogacy to complete a survey. This research will help develop best practices & influence national conversations on surrogacy. Link here: forms.office.com/e/r19D79Aj6J

For #PrideMonth, we're highlighting books with free introductions! Browse our site #GenderStudies & #SexualityStudies: bit.ly/3Fs37yw Check out QUEER & TRANS LIFE by Posocco @silviaposocco.bsky.social, Gonzalez-Polledo @ej-gp.bsky.social, Aaberg, Altay @tunayaltay.bsky.social: bit.ly/40Rr228

Read Revolting Prostitutes for an explanation of why the Swedish model is a complete failure that only makes sex work harder and more dangerous.

An inspirational launch for the New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility & Social Change Around The Globe at KCL last night - thanks so much to @lucyvandewiel.bsky.social for organising. The text is available open access here: opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

I am very pleased that my book Women's medicine has been reviewed by @drcamillam.bsky.social alongside the work of brilliant colleagues and friends @histofsex.bsky.social @claireljones.bsky.social and Jessica Borges. What a thorough and beautiful review! Thanks academic.oup.com/shm/article-...

Literature in the Age of the Self 📆 16 June 2025, 3:00 pm–7:15 pm Join this free event which brings together celebrated authors and scholars to discuss the experience and depiction of the self in the twenty-first century. Book now: www.ucl.ac.uk/english/even... #event #literature

London based? This Birkbeck event on Lived Experience Writing and Medical Humanities on 17th June looks really excellent: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Join us for a panel talk chronicling the legacies of queer visual cultures, organising histories, and how contemporary artists are dialoguing with the past and responding to HIV and AIDS in their work today. More information here - www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/art-a...

...in a coupla weeks time...

Looking forward to giving the William Matthews Lecture on 30th May 6-7.30pm at Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square WC1E 7JL. I'm talking to the title: In Vitro: The Fertility Industry Medieval and Modern. Come! Tickets are free but you need to book: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

I'm very pleased to be supporting Dr Alice Hall and Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell in running the brand new research network, Reproduction and the Humanities, at York. We welcome members working on themes relating to reproduction across a range of disciplines reproductionandthehumanities.wordpress.com